GLENMORE • BANYUWANGI • ARCHIVES

Glenmore.
History reread through the archives.

Glenmore grew from land applications around 1888, Surabaya trading networks, London capital, the railway, and the labour of thousands of estate workers.

MYTH VS ARCHIVE

Not one founder, not one date.

Contemporary records show that the Glen More name and company existed before 1910. Cultuur-Maatschappij Glen More was established in Surabaya in 1901 and took over four erfpacht parcels from Fraser, Eaton & Co.

Ross, Taylor & Co. appears in the records as an agency firm in Surabaya, not as a single founder of Glenmore. No contemporary source has been found for 2 February 1910.

The Scottish imprint remains relevant through an Anglo-Scottish trading network, but who exactly coined the Glenmore name remains unknown.

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MEMORY & EUROPE

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